Advanced Photonix Inc. Announces New Deep UV Windowless Large Area Avalanche Photodiodes.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CAMARILLO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 19, 2000 Advanced Photonix Inc.(R) (AMEX AMEX See: American Stock Exchange :API) announced that it has recently introduced a new line of deep ultraviolet (UV) windowless Large Area Avalanche Photodiodes (LAAPDs). The new 157 series offers a hermetically her·met·ic also her·met·i·cal adj. 1. Completely sealed, especially against the escape or entry of air. 2. Impervious to outside interference or influence: sealed, windowless, all solid state device that is rugged and compact and provides quantum efficiencies superior over a longer spectral range to the traditional photomultiplier tube A vacuum tube that converts light into electrical energy and amplifies it. Photomultiplier tubes are used in high-end drum scanners, because they are more sensitive to light than the CCD elements used in lower-cost devices. (PMT See photomultiplier tube. ) and can deliver up to four times as much gain as a traditional avalanche photodiode. Modules are available with the new detector in 3mm, 5mm, 10mm and 16mm diameters and house an adjustable high voltage The term high voltage characterizes electrical circuits, in which the voltage used is the cause of particular safety concerns and insulation requirements. High voltage is used in electrical power distribution, in cathode ray tubes, to generate X-rays and particle beams, to power supply requiring only +/- 12 volts input along with a low noise, high-speed AC coupled transimpedance amplifier. The new series was designed specifically for fine line photolithography A lithographic technique used to transfer the design of circuit paths onto printed circuit boards as well as the circuit paths and electronic elements of a chip onto a wafer's surface. A photomask is created with the design for each layer of the board or wafer (chip). equipment manufacturers, who are continually working to keep up with the increasing demand for technologies enabling the manufacture of smaller, more powerful computer chips. In announcing the new design, Brock Koren, president and chief executive officer of Advanced Photonix Inc., said: "We are very pleased with the new 157 series LAAPDs. They were designed in response to emerging market demand for equipment to make circuit components of smaller dimensions, allowing computer chip manufacturers to include more transistors and circuit elements on increasingly smaller chip surfaces. "The new design allows us early entry into the microlithography market segment, at a time when our component can be designed into the end product by original equipment manufacturers." Advanced Photonix Inc.(R) is a leading supplier of innovative, silicon-based electro-optical products and design solutions to a global OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and customer base. Products include the patented Large Area Avalanche Photodiode (LAAPD) and FILTRODE(R) detectors, as well as PIN photodiodes. More information on Advanced Photonix can be found at http://www.advancedphotonix.com. The information contained herein includes forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. that are based on assumptions that management believes to be reasonable but are subject to inherent uncertainties and risks including, but not limited to, unforeseen technological obstacles which may prevent or slow the development and/or manufacture of new products, limited (or slower than anticipated) customer acceptance of new products which have been and are being developed by the company, and a decline in the general demand for optoelectronic products. |
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